Sunday, October 12, 2008

Japanese Animation and Pedophiles

Japanese animations or known as anime in Japan is one of the most popular entertainment in the world because the consumer of this shows not only for children but for teenager and adult as well. Usually fans of anime called themselves as otaku. Although not all of anime fans wanted to called otaku because so many negative opinion about that name. Usually anime dedicated to teenager and adult, always provided good story, fanservice, and even lolita characters as the optional things. Good story is the most important thing for the quality of anime. No matter how good the artwork, if the story is below average then no one would watch them. For fanservice, it is optional but so many popular anime added fanservice to ‘refresh’ and ‘attracts’ the audience. For your information, fanservice is vaguely defined term primarily used for Japanese anime and manga to refer to elements in a story that are unnecessary to a storyline and are designed to amuse or excite the audience with sexually-derived content. The term can be applied more generally to something that is done solely to please fans. The other thing and the most controversial one is lolita characters. Lolita is a Japanese word for cute and little girl or girl with youthful characteristics. Sometimes, Lolita characters become hentai (sexual) objects in the anime shows. Even though the characters and story are just fiction, many people who cannot hold themselves and become a pedophile. Australia, Canada, Norway, United States and the other country have claimed that Lolita anime with hentai scene on it is illegal. (Source from Wikipedia)